Test Better, Teach Better
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Test Better, Teach Better

The Instructional Role of Assessment

  1. 174 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Test Better, Teach Better

The Instructional Role of Assessment

About this book

The right kinds of tests, correctly applied, can help every teacher become a better teacher. But unless you know the nuts and bolts of effective test design and application, you may be collecting the wrong data; misinterpreting data; and drawing off-base conclusions about what students know and can do, what to teach next, and how effective your instruction has been.

In Test Better, Teach Better, assessment expert W. James Popham explores the links between assessment and instruction and provides a jargon-free look at classroom and large-scale test construction, interpretation, and application. Featuring sample items, testing tips, and recommended resources, this "crash course" in instructionally focused assessment includes


* The four types of instructional decisions that testing will illuminate.
* What you really need to know about measurement concepts like validity, reliability, and bias.
* The advantages and disadvantages of various test formats and experience-based rules for creating great items in each.
* The benefits of assessing student affect and guidelines for doing it in your own classroom.

In addition, Popham offers practical advice for dealing with today's myriad testing targets and explains how standards-based achievement tests currently don't (but could) provide both accountability evidence and useful instructional information.

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Information

Publisher
ASCD
Year
2003
Print ISBN
9780871206671
eBook ISBN
9781416601210
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1: The Links Between Testing and Teaching
  7. Chapter 2: How Tests Can Clarify the Curriculum
  8. Chapter 3: Too Many Testing Targets
  9. Chapter 4: Validity, Reliability, and Bias
  10. Chapter 5: An Introduction to Test Building
  11. Chapter 6: Selected-Response Items
  12. Chapter 7: Constructed-Response Items
  13. Chapter 8: The Value of Affective Assessment
  14. Chapter 9: Uses and Misuses of Standardized Achievement Tests
  15. Chapter 10: Instructionally Supportive Standards-Based Tests
  16. Chapter 11: Collecting Credible Classroom Evidence of Instructional Impact
  17. Epilogue: Cora in Her Classroom: An Illustration of Instructionally Focused Testing
  18. Index
  19. About the Author
  20. Related ASCD Resources
  21. Search this Book